Team Trump Pushes CDC to Revise Down Its COVID Death Counts  —  The president and members of his task force are skeptical of the numbers and want the methodology changed.  —  President Donald Trump and members of his coronavirus task force are pushing officials at the Centers for Disease Control …

Kushner, Law Aside, Doesn't Rule Out Delaying 2020 Election  —  The opinion of a White House staff member has no bearing on when the election is held, but his comment played into the concerns of President Trump's detractors.  —  WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law …

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort released to home confinement amid coronavirus concerns  —  Manafort's lawyers had requested release, citing age, pre-existing conditions.  —  President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been released from prison to serve the remainder …

U.S. judge puts on hold Justice Dept. move to dismiss Michael Flynn's guilty plea to hear outside groups' challenges  —  A U.S. judge on Tuesday put on hold the Justice Department's move to drop charges against Michael Flynn, saying he expects independent groups and legal experts to argue …

EXCLUSIVE: In court filing, FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 hijackers  —  WASHINGTON — The FBI inadvertently revealed one of the U.S. government's most sensitive secrets about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity …

Ocasio-Cortez is working with the Biden campaign on climate policy  —  Liberal leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is helping Joe Biden's presidential campaign develop proposals by serving on a climate policy panel that the former vice president created as part of a larger effort to woo the party's left wing.

Howard Stern to Trump supporters: He hates you and so do I  —  Howard Stern says he and President Trump are both showmen who love a good time — and they both hate Trump supporters.  —  “One thing Donald loves is celebrities, he loves the famous,” Stern said on his SiriusXM show Tuesday.  “He loves it.

Chinese, Iranian Hacking May Be Hampering Search for Coronavirus Vaccine, Officials Say  —  In a possible escalation, U.S. to accuse China of actions some officials consider attacks on American public health  —  WASHINGTON—Chinese and Iranian hackers are aggressively targeting American universities …

With Obamagate, Trump returns to a favorite distraction tactic  —  Donald Trump launched his political career turbocharging the conspiratorial birther movement.  Now Trump is trying to keep his presidency afloat with another theory about his predecessor: Obamagate.

As Coronavirus Restrictions Lift, Millions in U.S. Are Leaving Home Again  —  Where people started leaving home again  —  Percentage point change in the share of people staying home  —  Note: The map shows the change in the average share of people sheltering at home from May 1 to May 8 …

Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmakers in a bind  —  OWOSSO, Mich. — Armed members of the Michigan Home Guard stood outside Karl Manke's barber shop, ready to blockade the door if police arrived.

Who You Calling Sleepy Joe?:  Biden on His Youth Agenda, Internet Memes, and Fighting Trump From His House  —  “Young people want the truth,” says the presumptive Democratic nominee.  And “I sometimes say more than I mean, but no one doubts I mean what I say.”

A new internal GOP poll suggests tight prez, Senate races in Georgia  —  An internal poll conducted by a group backing Gov. Brian Kemp showed a deadlocked presidential race in Georgia and tight contests for both U.S. Senate seats, underscoring the challenges Republicans face keeping the state in the GOP column.

Trump's racism will bring his party down with him  —  President Trump can't help himself.  The former reality-TV host was warned by White House staff, his campaign team, financial contributors and Republicans on Capitol Hill that his afternoon news conferences were causing political damage.

Coronavirus likely forced 27 million off their health insurance  —  Roughly 27 million people have likely have lost job-based health coverage since the coronavirus shocked the economy, according to new estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation.  —  Why it matters: Most of these people …

No, 68 Percent of Americans Did Not Say They Would Avoid ‘Normal Life’ Until There's a Coronavirus Vaccine  —  Two-thirds of Americans said they would not return to “normal life” until a vaccine becomes available for COVID-19, according to CNN.  —  The ramifications of this finding …

Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm  —  Even after the crisis eases, companies may let workers stay home.  That would affect an entire ecosystem, from transit to restaurants to shops.  Not to mention the tax base.  —  Before the coronavirus crisis …

‘Faithless elector’: Supreme Court hears cases that could change presidential contests  —  If presidential electors are determined to be free agents, a handful — or even one in a close election — could change the outcome.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday takes up a …

Think we have military primacy over China?  Think again.  —  Here's a fact that ought to startle every American who assumes that because we spend nearly $1 trillion each year on defense, we have primacy over our emerging rival, China.  —  “Over the past decade, in U.S. war games against China …

Is the Trump Campaign App Designed to Win the Election, or Launch Trump TV?  —  Brad Parscale's “Death Star” looks less like it's trying to win in 2020 than start a TV network in 2021.  —  At first glance, President Trump's digital campaign operation appears fairly impressive.

Governor Inslee lays out statewide contact tracing plan for COVID-19  —  At his May 12 press conference, Governor Jay Inslee laid out the plans for the statewide contact tracing initiative.  —  “[The initiative] is robust, it is vigorous and it is comprehensive, and it needs to be all three to be successful,” Inslee said.

Small business used to define America's economy.  The pandemic could change that forever.  —  More than 100,000 small businesses have closed forever as the nation's pandemic toll escalates  —  The coronavirus pandemic is emerging as an existential threat to the nation's small businesses …

AP Exclusive: CDC docs stress plans for more virus flareups  —  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Advice from the nation's top disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic included detailed instructive guidance …

Republican voters give Trump and GOP governors cover to reopen  —  Republican voters have undergone a significant shift on the coronavirus in a few short weeks.  —  A month ago, half of GOP voters said they were more worried about public health than the economy.

Inn at Little Washington Chef Will Fill His Socially Distanced Dining Room With Midcentury Mannequins  —  The three Michelin-starred destination will also have Marilyn Monroe masks.  —  A few weeks ago, the Inn at Little Washington sent out an email blast announcing that the luxury Rappahannock …

Americans' expectations for safe public gatherings slip to July at the earliest, Post-U. Md. poll finds  —  As the coronavirus spreads across the country, Americans are curbing their expectations about when it will be safe for gatherings of 10 or more people, with about 2 in 3 adults now saying …

Different Coronavirus Models Are Starting To Agree.  The Picture's Not Good  —  Toggle more options  —  More than 82,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19 as of Tuesday.  How many more lives will be lost?  Scientists have built dozens of computational models to answer that question.

It's time to take off the gloves against Chinese cybercrime  —  The U.S. government is reportedly set to accuse China's state-run hacking groups of attacking U.S. research institutions and pharmaceutical companies to steal novel coronavirus data, treatments and vaccines.  This ought to be a wake-up call.

Republican Mike Garcia leads in race to fill Democrat Katie Hill's seat  —  Republican Mike Garcia jumped to an early lead Tuesday over Democrat Christy Smith in the runoff for a House seat in the Los Angeles suburbs, raising GOP hopes of flipping a blue California Congressional District for the first time since 1998.

Infection rates were climbing at Nebraska meatpacking plants.  Then health officials stopped reporting the numbers.  —  More than a thousand have been infected at meatpacking plants, but state officials won't say which ones.  Workers and families say they have a right to know.

Trump approval dips amid mounting coronavirus death toll, trails Biden by 8 points: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - More Americans have grown critical of President Donald Trump over the past month as the death toll mounts from the coronavirus pandemic and he now trails Democratic …

Latin America's Outbreaks Now Rival Europe's.  But Its Options Are Worse.  —  An analysis by The New York Times found some cities in Latin America have seen spikes in fatalities that match the worst of the pandemic elsewhere.  —  Deaths doubled in Lima, rivaling the worst month of the pandemic in Paris.